Books
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- Summer books 2013
- Interview: Dan Savage
- NYC music scene memoirs
- New York à la Cart
- Renata Adler
Summer books 2013
New titles spark the question, “To beach or not to beach?”
Interview: Dan Savage
The columnist and author talks about the clitoris and snowboarding.
NYC music scene memoirs
Authors delve into sex, drugs and the rest in their punk-rock inflected tales of New York City
New York à la Cart
A new book tells stories and offers recipes from NYC food trucks
Renata Adler
The longtime critic and journalist aids our look at her unclassifiable fiction.
Best book events in NYC: Critics' picks
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
- Critics choice
- Free
The Roots bandleader and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon drummer dug into his history and his head to concoct the reflective and multifarious memoir.
- Barnes & Noble Union Square 33 E 17th St, between Broadway and Park Ave South
- Wed Jun 19 - Thu Jun 20
Neil Gaiman
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Fans will come out in droves as the fantastical storyteller presents another disquieting and absorbing myth of childhood transformed.
- Symphony Space 2537 Broadway, at 95th St, 10025
- Wed Jun 19
NoViolet Bulawayo
- Critics choice
The Zimbabwe-born Bulawayo examines both her homeland and her adopted U.S. home in her debut novel, We Need New Names.
- The powerHouse Arena 37 Main St, at Water St
- Mon Jun 24
Philipp Meyer
- Critics choice
Meyer's new dark epic revolves around generations of Texans who experience the cultural displacement inherent in frontier life.
- McNally Jackson Books 52 Prince St, between Lafayette and Mulberry Sts
- Wed Jun 19 - Thu Jun 20
Recent book reviews
Book review: Bobcat and Other Stories by Rebecca Lee
- Rated as: 3/5
Lee's imagination produces great copy in this series of tales about authors and architects, but her stamina quits before the collection does.
Book review: Carnival by Rawi Hage
- Rated as: 4/5
Decadence and desperation spray across the pages of Hage's novel like buckshot, as the driver of a taxicab conveys his misfit fares around the city.
Book review: TransAtlantic by Colum McCann
- Rated as: 4/5
McCann's new novel not only traverses time and space, but proves itself a supple, disarmingly casual work connecting the historic with the everyday.
Book review: The House at Belle Fontaine by Lily Tuck
- Rated as: 2/5
While Tuck's incisive prose is admirable, her short-story collection offers few opportunities for a reader to invest emotionally.
Top books stories
Martin Amis
The recently transplanted novelist talks England, Christopher Hitchens and new novel Lionel Asbo.
Best New York places in literature (that you can still visit)
Connect with the Plaza Hotel, the Empire State Building and the Museum of Natural History through the eyes of great New York writers.
Alison Bechdel
A celebrated graphic novelist dives back in with another intimate memoir about a parent.
Best New York books to impress New Yorkers
The New York books—novels, biographies, histories, photo books and more—that will earn the most cred with culturally savvy city dwellers.
Books events calendar
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Ahmir "Questlove"...
The Roots bandleader and Late Night with Jimmy Fal...
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Neil Gaiman
Much more than a fantasy author, Gaiman creates st...
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Naked Girls Reading
This popular "nude literary salon" features not ju...
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